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What’s In Your Cup?
You are holding a cup of coffee when someone comes along and bumps into you or shakes your arm, making you spill your coffee everywhere.
Why did you spill the coffee?
“Because someone bumped into me!!!”
Wrong answer.
You spilled the coffee because there was coffee in your cup.
Had there been tea in the cup, you would have spilled tea.
Whatever is inside the cup is what will spill out.
Therefore, when life comes along and shakes you (which WILL happen), whatever is inside you will come out. It’s easy to fake it until you get rattled.
So we have to ask ourselves… “what’s in my cup?”
When life gets tough, what spills over?
Joy, gratitude, peace and humility?
Anger, bitterness, victim mentality and quitting-tendencies?
Life provides the cup, YOU choose how to fill it.
Today let’s work towards filling our cups with gratitude, forgiveness, joy, words of affirmation, resilience, positivity; and kindness, gentleness and love for others. 
Choose the Better Side of Life
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Throw Your Hands In The Air!! (post by John Tesh)
Go ahead and throw your hands in the air like you just don’t care!
Our mind and our movements are connected. So if you jump for joy – you’ll feel more joyful. Our emotions are based on signals from the body – and upward and outward movements can lift our mood.
So throw your hands up like your favorite team just scored a goal!
You just might feel a whole lot better afterward….
#StayKind (post by Frank Somerville KTVU)
This is one of those stories that will just make you smile.
Jhazmhon Williams Lee was headed to a Walmart.
She saw the woman in this picture holding a sign and asking for food and clothes for her family.
She gave her $10 and left.
But she wanted to do more.
Here’s what Jhazmhon posted about what happened next:
As I parked, I felt a warm feeling and something told me I could do more for that lady.
So I went back and I asked her questions like where she was from, why was she here, and where are her children.
She began to look scared and started giving me false information.
She thought I was going to call child services.
She said that from the color of her skin, people don’t want to help her.
I told her regardless of the color of your skin I love you anyway and all I want to do is help you.
She took me to her kids and where she lived and I’m not going to go in detail but I was so sad.
I told her I don’t have a lot of money but the money that I do have I would like to help her with it.
So I took her and her daughter to Walmart and told her to get everything she needed!
She was in tears and so excited.
My bday is tomorrow and I planned on going out of town this weekend, but instead of doing that I know I received more enjoyment helping this sweet lady and her family with the money I saved instead.
I encourage everyone to lend a helping hand.
It doesn’t have to be financially.
It could just be you walking up to others and encouraging them that there are better days (ahead).
You will be amazed how much that means to people.
I was very excited and my heart was filled with joy and with her permission I posted this.
Never be ashamed to ask for help.
–Jhazmhon Williams Lee
https://www.facebook.com/jhazmhon.lee?fref=photo
It’s always amazing to me what happens when you listen to your heart.
Jhazmhon easily could have said:
“Hey I gave her $10.
I did my part.”
But instead she listened to her heart and look at the result.
Thanks to Gina Gina for telling me about this story.
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